Re: (erielack) Daily Yard Checks

[pat.moore_@_att.net]

Bob...

Thanks for your very informative post!  I will incorporate this into my operation.

- -pat  


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From: Robert Stafford <erielack1_@_yahoo.com>
>
All agents did a daily yard check of all the cars in your station. I was 
normally done in the morning. You walked all the tracks in the station and wrote 
down the car numbers by track name, their location on the tracks, who they where 
consigned to and if they where empty or loaded. On Mondays you had to go out and 
check all of the out laying stations that you where responsible for. You got 
> paid mileage to drive and do this.
>  
When I went to work for the Burlington Northern we did the same thing, a bit 
different form, but still had the same information on it. On the BN also on 
Mondays you went out and checked all of your out laying tracks. When I was the 
agent at Des Moines, NM on Mondays I would ride with the track inspector to 
check my out laying tracks. We would put on the rail at MP: 261 right at the 
Colorado New Mexico border and high rail the 85 to 90 miles to Texline, Texas. I 
> learned a lot about track on those trips that is still helpful to me today.
>  
> Now every thing is centralized and no one checks any more unless the list from 
> the computer is so messed up that it has to be done. 
> Bob Stafford
> 
> --- On Thu, 7/24/08, pat.moore_@_att.net <pat.moore@att.net> wrote:
> 
> From: pat.moore_@_att.net <pat.moore@att.net>
> Subject: (erielack) Daily Yard Checks
> To: eldispatcher72_@_yahoo.com, "EL Mail List" <erielack@lists.railfan.net>
> Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 8:31 PM
> 
> Rich...
> 
> Thanks for the reply!  So, let me get this straight.  The "daily yard
> check" was a form that an EL freight agent had to fill out for cars at his
> station every day?  I'm just wondering in terms of how this worked
> operationally.  For example, there was a freight agent in Bath, NY, through the
> end of the EL.  Even though there was no "yard" to speak of, just a
> few tracks where the EL would interchange with the Bath & Hammondsport,
> would the EL agent have to do a daily yard check to note the freight cars in
> all the sidings for the various consignees (i.e. M. J. Ward, Babcock Ladder,
> Agway, etc.)?  I want to incorporate this correctly into my operations on my
> model railroad.
> 
> -pat moore

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